Eyewitness news. The home stretch. The major candidates planning trips to battleground North Carolina. who else will be here. A father grieving his daughter shot to death. The new battle he and his family face. Homegrown halloween a busy franklin street in chapel hill. why its different this year. Eyewitness news starts right now. Final stretch just eight days until election night. Good evening, im steve daniels. And im tisha powell. That mean the two main presidenial candiates will be searching for votes across our state. The big day is thursday donald trump planning a rally in selma, in johnston county. It starts at seven pm at the the farm event center. And Hillary Clinton is expected ithe tar heel state on thursday as well. Her Campaign Early voting rally. and a big day on wednesday as president obama comes to the triangle. Hell be stumping for the Clinton Campaign in chapel hill. long lines at u nc. Students trying to get tickets for the obama event on wednesday afternoon. Itll be at carchal arena. The president also expected in fayetteville on friday. And Vice President ial nominee tim kaine campaigning in sanford late this afternoon. Kaine talking about the economy. And praising Hillary Clinton. And also attacking her opponent donald and divisive. Saying theres no grup he will not insult. When kaine asked most people in the crowd indicated theyve already voted. He urged them to volunteer in the home stretch to get more democrats to the polls. Saying you cant take anything for granted because this has been an election season of surprises. Kaine hammered being a checkmate state. Saying if Hillary Clinton wins here shell win the presidency. While kaine didnt speak very long on it in sanford the clinton email scandal is dogging her campaign tonight. Right now the fbi is searching through thousands of emails connected to Hillary Clinton aide huma abedin. On the campaign question fbi director james comeys decision to speak publicly about the Ongoing Investigation this close to the election. Abc news got a letter from several high ranking officials, both democrat and republican criticizing comey for what they say is an unprecedented decision so close to election day. Republican president ial nominee donald trump stumping in michigan today. A place where clinton has a solid lead. But the Trump Campaign sensing an opportunity says its expanding its map. Last fridays announcement of an fbi investigation. He told the crowd that clinton isnt the victim, the American People are the victims. Tonight senator richard burr apologizing after he made a comment about a bullseye and magazine cover showing Hillary Clinton. The republican made the comments to a small group of gop volunteers in mooresville over the weekend. Tonight, the Burr Campaign issued made was inappropriate, and i apologize for it. Abc 11 dot com and the abc 11 mobile news app. Are your election headquarters. Click on the politics tab. Or just go to abc 11 dot com slash politics for the latest headlines. Plus. Details about where the candidates will be this week. And what you need to know before you vote. Its all at abc 11 dot com and on the abc 11 mobile news app. A Hoke County School bus driver has been suspended without pay pending an investigation after a mother said she bullied her 12yearold son. Percell reached out to us and said the bullying went on for several eeks. And she says he witnessed it happen on more than one occasion and that the driver even teased her son about his heart condition. Percell called the schools principal who referred her to the transportation department. She even took the 6th grader to therapy. But she says no immediate action was taken. Until last week when the district told her the situation had been taken care of. The director of transportation has reviewed bus Surveillance Video and is taking the matter seriously. The district says any further action would come at their Board Meeting november 9th. Tonight a community in raleigh is coming together to help a family whos son was bullied at school. absolute strangers are it. Joel brown joins us from the Raleigh Eyewitness News Center with the story. Romelos case hit a nerve. Because there has been a smmering belief by many in the community. That discipline is handed out differently. Depending on the child. Tonight, a chance to air some of those longheld grievances. Do y want to go back to Farmington Woods . No why . Cause im afraid theyre gonna start laughing at me again. Since we aired our story on 10year has been outrage. Community advocates in raleigh. Trying to channel that outrage towards change at wake County Schools. This is a story of a 10year old boy at Farmington Woods school. They shared the disturbing details, again. Romelo says his pants were pulled down by 2 girls on the playground, before they spit in his face following a dispute over the merrygoround. Romelos mom says the girls were not disciplined. She says her son was suicidal from the persistant bullying. And Community Members tonight they see as a doublestandard. When it comes to race anhow students are nished. I would be looking at pressing charg for phyical assault on these 2 little girls because if this had been the other way around thats what they wouldve done to this little boy. One teenager told her own tale of school house bullying. Out of nowhere she starts swinging and hitting me in the face. A problem much larger than little romelo. About how bullying is really real in our schools and how keep it alive that we will stay on it until policy is changed. O with romelos case still fresh in peoples minds. Community members plan to take their complaints about bullying and disparate suspension policy to wake County School board members. When the panel meets, tomorrow night. A scaled down Halloween Party starting to wind down now in chapel hill. Used to be the party to go to but its now called a homegrown halloween, much smaller and much shorter. Elaina athans joins us from chapel hill with more on tonights event. Different feel this halloween. Its a much more Family Friendly shut down. Before police would close down more than a mile of franklin street. Live look at the part people came out in droves and some folks put a lot of work into their halloween in droves and some folks put a lot of worknto their Halloween Costumes. We have seen trnsformers. Mi nions. A ain shower. Dinosr. Even a general popping out of a picture frame. 38 09 its un, its festive. Even on monday night people are out here having fun. 18 45 26 grab a group of friends, come down for a good time. See the cool costumes. Its really cool. Party is winding down. Event ends in a half and hour and franklin street will reopen. Live in chapel hill ea abc11 ewn of trick or treaters outside the fayetteville Eyewitness News center n hay street. Our team of greg barnes. And morgan norwood. Handing out abc 11 goodie bags to all those people in those good looking costumes ths afternoon. Governor pat mccrory welcomed trick tonight at the executiv fot year hes handed t candy. The blount street mansion all lit up with halloween decorations. Please we have tonights cutest pet costume contest winner. Its the horses from the helping horse thrapeutic Riding Program in raleigh. You can seetheyre all super heroes for the last few days, weve been aski you to send pictures of your pet all dressed up for halloween to of photos you can see them all in the Photo Gallery on the abc11 home page. The news is just getting started. Woman save. How a woman got tpped in her burningcar and who came to her rescue. Snookinew home. A loggerhead turtle moves to the north rolia coast. where she came from w bufirst. A live look outside of the raleigh Eyewitness News cenr chris . Adlib the 50th annual cma awards. Live from nashville be there for it all. Heath waliga will be live in nashville starting tomorrow on Eyewitness News at four. Plus. Shell be there with all te big stars and for the main event on i did not email any, um, classified material. Really . The fbi said there were 110 classified emails that were exchanged. Her lie . I respect the second amendment. But hind closed doors, hillary told liberal elites. The Supreme Court is wrong on the second endment. Hillary will lie about anything to get elected. The nra institute for legislative action firefike county. chopper 11 hd over the scene this afternoon between apex and holly springs. People driving on us one could see all the smoke. This is in the shadow of the Shearon Harris nuclear plant. You can see. Some goodsized flames. Racing across several acres of land. Off friendship road. no word from firefighters tonight about what mayve started it. Now to the latest on matthews aftermath. People living in fayettevistill living with debris from the storm outside their homes. City leaders say contractors ahead of the storm to remove the debris with one truck and three on the way. Crews from new jersey have worked 14 hour days going house to house. It took one crew an hour to clear 3 yards to give you an idea how long it may take to clear the city. And a warning tonight about flooded cars making their way to the open market. This is a flooded car that the state owns it was one of many that were covered in water thanks to matthew. Experts say a moldy smell or even if ere too giveaway that it was a flooded car. You can also check the oil since it changes color when in contact with water. At least 15 thousand people are living in shelters and hotels after an earthquakein central italy. Its the second quake in a week. Officials say that number doesnt include the People Living in their cars. Or staying somewhere else. Yesterdays quake didnt cause any deaths or injuries. Because most city centers have been closed because of damage from las weeks quake. Meanwhile, the past week. Now to the big board and the mustsee video of thnight. We begin with an incredible rescue insanta fe. A Police Officer rescued this 87 year old woman from her flaming car. The woman was driving on a flat tire and it caught fire. She didnt notice. The officer managed to get the woman out of the car and put hte fire out. Doctors checked her out and shes okay. dramatic video from new jersey as First Responders deer that got caught in a cemetery fence. The animal somehow wound up wedged between the bars. Meers of the totowa Fire Rescue Team managed to calm the deer. And widen the bars so it could break free. But as the deer tried to running away it nearly got trapped again a man in china wanted to get an up close look at a sleeping panda. Probably not the st idea. Zo Officials Say mei ling was reing in the up. Grabbed the man by the leg. And wrestled him to the ground. Zoo keepers say mei ling was just looking to play and the move is similar to one used with breeders. The man eventually escaped. Officials believe the man jumped into the enclosure to show off to his female friends. So far no ones found the intruder. Heres a fun video from washington. The first couple celebrating their final halloween at the white house. The obamas grooving to Michael Jacksons thriller inside. Then, out candy to kids. He met a lame duck. A duck wrapped in bandages. And a little bo whspo y painted his head silver and dressed in a business suit. President obama says to him man, im not that gray from the obamas to oz do you recognize this adorable Glinda Dorothy duo . We love halloween and this year nina in search of candy. Those costumes took some work. The most time went into glindas crown that actually started out as a Christmas Ornament container. Head to my Facebook PageTisha Powell Wtvd and see how it was made after summerlike warmth yeerday, Central North Carolina overnight has ushered in a cooler air mass for today. The weather looks good for trick or treaters this evening as temperatus fll into the 60s and upper 50s by 9 pm. The clouds will increase later tonight with lows in the mid 40s to low 50s. The partly sunny weather will continue tomorrow, and it will still be comfortable with afternoon temperatures mostly the upper 60s. Summer warmth wednesday and thrsy. There will be enough sunshie to push temperatures well up in the 70s to near 80 on wednesday, and then into the 80s on thursday, when record highs may be threatened. Another cold front will pass on thursday night with just the chance of a shower or thunderstorm as it goes by. Then cooler, and pleasant, weather with lots of resident on our coast. A 300 pound loggerhead turtle named snooki. She now lives at the Karen Beasley sea turtle rescue foundation in surf ciy. After a private plane flew her to beaufort. Snooki was stranded on the jersey shes getting some help in our state. Experts say she could be at least fifty years old. A spooky way to spend halloween. What one brother and sister duo is braving tonight. And just how much do you love halloween . There is no limit to what every student in North Carolina can learn and achieve. Not when were 44th in per student funding. We should not ask for more money from you. He gave tax breaks to those at the top while raising taxes 67 ways on the middle class. Its time to polish up our brand and once more say, come check out North Carolina. Hows this for spooky . A brother and sister from canada. Are now spending this halloween night. Inside Draculas Castle in transylvania. Tami and robin varma won the trip. Through a promotion giveaway by airbnb. Theyre the first people to sleep in bran castle nce 1948. We havent heard if they decided to take the option. Of sleeping inside the velvet trimmed coffins. No trick here. Krispykreme giving a fre doughnut to anyone dressed in a Halloween Costume today only. So you better hurry to the location nearest you for the sweet treat. You can find other halloween freebies on abc 11dotcom, under the halloween section. And heres proof of how much americans love halloween. We spent eight point four billion dollars worth thats an alltime high in spending on the holiday in the 11 years the National Retail foundation has done a survey. A little over three billion dollars worth of that is spent on represents two andahalf billion more dollars. Nc state will have a seven footer on the basketball dave doeren remains searching for answers and cam newton might be close to getting some from the commissioner of the nfl his coach speaks about cams lack hold my calls, clear my calander and for lunch. knocking on window openfaced turkey sandwich, half white, half wheat with extra crispy bacon. Maam theres a man. Theres a calandar man. Turn around wait, wait, wait. Just wanted to swing on by and let you know that new scratchoff tickets come out the first tuesday of every month. guitar the very first tuesday, tuesday, ttttuesday. Its called the snake a long, skinny Congressional District drawn along i85 to segregate African American voters. Grab. And Justice Bob Edmunds . He wrote the decision supporting his partys discrimination. But federal judges rejected edmunds opinion and said the power grab was all about race. For Supreme Court, we deserve better than bob edmunds. Tonight that nfl commissioner Roger Goodell is planning to meet with cam newton and brin the leagues vp of officiating. Cam wants to voice his displeasure at a lack of penalty flags thrown in his favor. After yesterdays win cam said he doesnt feel safe on the field. Seem legit he took one late shot below the knees which did not result in a penalty. Ron rivera says hes spoken to the League Office several timein the past on cams behalf and did so again today. He wasnt dressed like the joker but dave doeren doeren is convinced his Nc State Team is better than its 4 and4 record. Resulted in an embarrassing loss on saturday. The wolfpack were favored by more than two touchdowns against Boston College a team riding a twelve game losing streak in the acc. Todays hes still searching for answers and admits this pack bunch doesnt have much room for error. Across campus the Basketball Team yurtseven has been cleared to play by the ncaa. The 7foot freshman will have to sit out nine games and donate one thousand dollars to a charity of his choice. Yurtseven played for a turkish pro club the previous three years whi for the 8th time in Program History the duke Basketball Team will start the season rannked number one in the Associated Press poll. Duke received 58 of the 65 first place votes the blue devils host marist a week in 12 days to open the season. After duke, kentucky sits at 2, followed by kansas, defending champs villanova and oregon. The team that beat duke in the ncaa tournament last year. The tar heels are one of five acc teams in the top 25. Deep there is the pack in the other geing votes category. Join us tomorrow morning on abc11 for the latest Eyewitness News. Well see you again tomorrow night for Eyewitness News at ten here on announcer today on tmz harvey ok. [laughter] ok, folks outofcontrol party at diddys. So son hdiosddedysted a Halloween Party. Its the craziest thing i have ever seen. People started rushing into th gates. The security pepper sprays all of them. Harvey i hate to say it but what a bunch of losers. Go party yourself. That party will be one of the hottest party on the weekend. Harvey why . Everybody goes to these parties. Bow wow was there. Dont mention bow wow. Mariah carey, bigues with iss the nasty breakup with james packer. Harvey she wants 50 million. How can you get that . You werent married. Harvey something bad happened on the boat in greece